{"id":94973,"date":"2022-05-25T12:52:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T07:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/?post_type=newss&p=94973"},"modified":"2022-05-25T12:52:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T07:22:18","slug":"coastal-communities-in-new-zealand-put-out-sandbags-forceful-waves-up-to-5-5m-predicted","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/coastal-communities-in-new-zealand-put-out-sandbags-forceful-waves-up-to-5-5m-predicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal communities in New Zealand put out sandbags, forceful waves up to 5.5m predicted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heavy swells are expected to hit coastlines in Wellington and Wairarapa in New Zealand from 6pm tonight, and stick around until 11pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n

On Wellington\u2019s south coast, \u014cwhiro Bay residents have been given a truckload of sandbags by the Wellington City Council, and workers in the process of smoothing a naturally-created \u201csand ramp\u201d, which worsened the effects of the last storm surge, have moved their machinery.<\/p>\n

MetService has\u00a0issued warnings\u00a0for Wellington between Cape Terawhiti and Turakirae Head from 6pm tonight to 6pm tomorrow, and Wairarapa between Turakirae Head and Mataikona from 9pm tonight to 3am on Friday.<\/p>\n

Wellington Region Emergency Management Office (WREMO) acting regional manager Dan Neely said people in affected areas should prepare for wave heights of 5 to 6 metres overnight tonight,\u00a0continuing the weather pattern\u00a0which damaged roads over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":1,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[417,2743,2082],"region":[44],"source":[2041],"country":[2042],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/94973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/94973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94974,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/94973\/revisions\/94974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94973"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=94973"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=94973"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=94973"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=94973"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=94973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}